Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present abnormally sensitive about his age, offers to beat any of his critics at tennis. His present status in Roosevelt strategy is precarious, more that of an old pensioner than a valuable lieutenant. When the President finally got around to endorsing him from the platform of his special train in California last month, Senator McAdoo, at his side, mopped his brow with obvious relief...
Instead of this new business being designed to catch an occasional bit of expense account chiseling by an individual salesman, it is designed to benefit thousands of honest salesmen, many of whom have already found it much more convenient to ride in a comfortable air-conditioned train to the city in which they are to make their calls and there find an excellently conditioned car for their convenience, rather than bucking pounding traffic over long city to city jumps...
...Louis Johnson took office. His contributions have been: 1) a notably successful effort to "sell" it to big industrialists; and 2) a supplementary Educational Orders Program, approved by the last Congress, whereby the U. S. will supply expensive dies and tools to pivotal manufacturers to test their facilities and train them in military production. This week Mr. Johnson submitted to President Roosevelt a list of the first items to be manufactured under this program. No. 1 on the list: the infantry's semi-automatic rifle, given preference because during the World War the army could not get enough Springfield...
...rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored, discussed U. S. aid to help Panama build roads (as a Canal defense measure), lunched with Governor Clarence Ridley of the Canal Zone, rode across the Isthmus in a special train...
Bowling along outside of Nevada, Mo., one night last week, a "Katy" (Missouri, Kansas and Texas) air-conditioned train ran over a skunk, got skunk into its air-conditioning machinery. Passengers were inconvenienced...